The Phantom 4 Pro Obsidian has a matte-gray finish (which is not what I'd expect for something called 'Obsidian').
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In the same way that regular obsidian can relieve general feelings of stress, rainbow obsidian can help move along the natural grieving process.
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This means that obsidian was delivered to Olorgesailie as a raw material, and not imported as a finished product; the humans who lived at Olorgesailie knapped the obsidian themselves.
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And hey, what the hell is Obsidian Studios working on?
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Carry some obsidian today to help keep yourself energetically grounded.
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Nothing that a good roll in the obsidian can't cure.
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But, the obsidian and cicada pendant I deliberately keep with me.
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Drops of scarlet blood on a hard tarmac black as obsidian.
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Obsidian Home Creations Mason Jar Bathroom Set, available at Amazon, $59.99
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My tester was "Obsidian Black Metallic" with a "Leatherette Black" interior.
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"It's more like this is our next Obsidian RPG," he explains.
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This is basically, and literally, a new coat of dark "obsidian" paint.
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Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment's newest RPG is The Outer Worlds.
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Perhaps meditate with some grounding stones, like black obsidian or black tourmaline.
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The Lost rove the futurist city of Obsidian, which was formerly Manhattan.
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What Obsidian hopes will make the game stand out is the setting.
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The researchers also found no less than 46,000 obsidian flakes at the site.
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Rainbow obsidian is said to be best for addressing matters of the heart.
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Meanwhile, obsidian and black onyx help draw out any negativity that dwells within.
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Sam shows Gilly the obsidian in "The Climb" after they escape Craster's Keep.
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I was thinking about my own life and recovering from everything after Obsidian.
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On the far-flung space colonies of Obsidian Entertainment's latest, unregulated capitalism rules.
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It's unclear if Obsidian has plans to further enhance the game's text options.
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The eyes of the face mask contain calcite, obsidian and a black gemstone.
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The teams discovered large amounts of non-native obsidian rock in the basin.
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A spokesman for the manager confirmed the performance figures of the Obsidian fund.
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The new Phantom 4 Pro Obsidian runs $1,499 and is also out in September.
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In addition to the obsidian, another commonly imported resource was brown or white chert.
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In the absence of fire-breathing reptiles, obsidian is formed by rapidly cooling lava.
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At Obsidian, adding voice actors to their characters comes late in the production process.
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Volcanic glass, or obsidian particles, have also been drifting in the air, USGS said.
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Trump disclosed a $27.6 million stake in Obsidian in May, his largest fund holding.
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At first I didn't know what it was, but I thought it was obsidian.
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Obsidian Entertainment is a studio best known for building on the work of others.
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Slicing with obsidian, I peeled the fur off and then the muscle and tendons.
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Obsidian is a hard and brittle volcanic glass that produces very sharp edges when fractured.
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Available in three color options: black, grey and obsidian, it will hit stores in 2018.
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Obsidian, also known as volcanic glass, has long been used in mystical and occult circles.
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These obsidian tools are the oldest pieces in the #CMoG collection worked by human hands.
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Obsidian can also analyse a drone's flight characteristics and the loading of its electric motors.
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Archaeological excavations have yielded wall paintings, clay figurines, obsidian mirrors, and reliefs carved on walls.
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The skull of one man had a "bladelet of obsidian volcanic rock" embedded in it.
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Obsidian Energy shares closed up 6.1 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange at C$1.57.
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The next destination on the list was an office building that gleamed like black obsidian.
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With the shades, the outside-facing sides are gray, to complement the facade's obsidian hue.
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Obsidian Black & Metallic Silver will still be available as special request, but at higher price.
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Finally, nearby volcanic deposits of obsidian represented another appealing reason to stay in the region.
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"I wish I had told her I loved her," thinks a small piece of obsidian.
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Trump disclosed a $27.6 million stake in Obsidian in May 2015, his largest fund holding.
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On October 25, Obsidian&aposs "The Outer Worlds" came out on Xbox One and PS4.
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You will always find obsidian flakes and fractured arrowheads littering the ground in these spots.
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Just imagine yourself in a movie theater, reclining in an enormously luxe, obsidian-black leather seat.
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" Jaelissa of Obsidian Moon Astrology "Church was the main corporate sponsor of astrology until the 1600s!
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Obsidian agreed in November to pay an $8.5 million civil fine to settle related SEC charges.
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Obsidian Energy shares were last up 4 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange at C$1.54.
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Their obsidian (read "dragonglass") blades and arrows did little to stop the humans' swords and shields.
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I love Renoir, because I like looking into the obsidian eyes of the women he paints.
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When the landscape changed, she had placed black tourmaline and obsidian stones around the massage bed.
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"It's a little different than what you're used to seeing from Obsidian," says director Adam Brennecke.
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Obsidian, rather than Bioware, released Neverwinter Nights 2 in 2009, with less success than its predecessor.
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She is on the board of Obsidian and also works closely with Awake, Crew, Rhumbix and Skyhigh.
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Sarah has led Greylock's investment in Cleo and is on the board of Cleo and Obsidian Security.
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Noisey: Romaplasm seems to be in a completely different emotional ballpark from Obsidian—which was really dark.
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LONDON — Who are the nine men in Wayne McGregor's new work for the Royal Ballet, "Obsidian Tear"?
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"Everyone is awake, we are all fine," Abdul says, then his obsidian face slips into a grin.
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In September 2018, Tesla removed obsidian black metallic and silver metallic from its color choices, to simplify manufacturing.
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There's citrine for business and personal power, lapis lazuli for communication, or black obsidian for grounding and protection.
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But it's not groundbreaking, and it's certainly not surprising: I've always known Obsidian has had this in them.
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FrontFour believes that a significant overhaul of Obsidian is necessary, including the streamlining of its assets through sales.
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And because the look is rooted with natural obsidian, it's one that doesn't come off as too Showgirls.
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BlackRock's long-running Obsidian fund and Perceptive Advisors, as well as the UK's Lansdowne Partners, posted August losses.
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A newly launched game, Obsidian Entertainment's "The Outer Worlds" was the second best-selling game of the month.
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Her performance-based installation Obsidian Ladder was curated by Olivia Marciano, Maurice's daughter and the Foundation's artistic director.
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The apartment entrance walls are coral red and obsidian black, painted in the local style of stucco veneziano.
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For me, Overgrown had become an obsidian funerary monument, but one with the dark gleam of new possibilities.
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I find the smartbangle of my dreams, the Best Friend 3 Tweentastic Bangle textured in Obsidian Cookies and Cream.
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Neanderthals even used obsidian to fashion weapons by chipping away at the rock, which is too brittle to forge.
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There's lots to like in the early hours of The Outer Worlds, the new sci-fi RPG from Obsidian.
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What it means: "The transfer of obsidian from long distances is essentially the first evidence of trade," Potts says.
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Obsidian Entertainment's The Outer Worlds is just around the corner, and Cyberpunk 2077 is likely coming sometime after that.
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BlackRock&aposs long-running flagship hedge fund Obsidian returned more than 10.53% in 2019, a source tells Business Insider.
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He was the leader of a group of mutants stuck in perpetual adolescence while her father, Falco, ruled Obsidian.
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In the show, that weapon is dragonglass, which is actually obsidian, a black, translucent igneous rock formed by volcanoes.
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He also discovered that the White Walker kryptonite known as dragonglass can be made from the obsidian deposits at Dragonstone.
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With jaws like a vise, beady, obsidian eyes, and torpedo-shaped bodies, these predators seem far more menacing than motherly.
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To test their theory, the team recreated the prehistoric tools from local obsidian, using shells and pebbles as chipping devices.
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The other moms in her moon circle would surely stone her to death with obsidian crystals if they found out.
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For mysterious reasons, one looks like obsidian, giving a town that grew up around it its name: Black Spire Outpost.
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What you'll need for your simple nightly incantation is as follows: black obsidian, clear quartz, rose quartz, and an intention.
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With the audience thus arrayed, the oldest one unfolded his fist to reveal some shards of obsidian he had collected.
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This Skin Gym one from REVOLVE is just perfect and I absolutely love the Black Obsidian stone and it's benefits.
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That has attracted the attention of investors such as the Obsidian Opportunity Fund investing in projects such as solar farms.
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Early mirrors lacked precision; made from bronze or obsidian, they revealed the viewer to himself hazily in their polished surfaces.
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Obsidian just patched a bug that lets your companions "die" outside the hardcore Supernova mode — something that should be impossible.
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A major element of the show's final season are the weapons made of obsidian, which is difficult to melt and cast.
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If you need some grounding, carry a dark stone (like obsidian) around with you, or just eat some hearty comfort food.
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That would make the toolkit 600 years older than ancient obsidian pieces that were directly identified as tattooing implements in 2016.
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The Stick of Truth was an Obsidian Entertainment production, but this sequel is in the hands of Ubisoft's San Francisco studio.
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The villagers harvested wheat, raised sheep, goat and cattle, and used simple tools made of bone and volcanic glass called obsidian.
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Guo's investments at Greylock include data security companies Obsidian Security and Awake Security — the former of which is still in stealth.
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One man's skeleton was found with a sharp blade made of a volcanic glass called obsidian still embedded in his skull.
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Carved from obsidian, or volcanic glass, thousands of the triangular objects, known as mata&aposa, litter the surface of the island.
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Obsidian was burned by a slide in oil and other commodities, according to a February BlackRock client note seen by Reuters.
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I had a Google Doc full of pictures of obsidian tulips and interracial cake toppers, waiting on the world to change.
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There was also a rock outcrop nearby full of volcanic obsidian, which they used to make tools to hunt the rodents.
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Obsidian is perhaps best known for creating Fallout: New Vegas, one of the best installments of the post-apocalyptic Fallout series.
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On Beauty Obsidian shades have a romantic, mysterious allure and are a perfect antidote to the ubiquitous reds of the season.
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DJI is also updating the more pro-focused Phantom 4 lineup today with a new version called the Phantom 4 Pro Obsidian.
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Obsidian is currently crowdfunding a sequel to fantasy RPG Pillars of Eternity, and has more than doubled its initial $1.1 million goal.
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Or will Obsidian manage to walk that line, allowing choice, showing consequences, but still having a heart and ethos of its own?
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Obsidian was on hand to show off a new trailer for its Fallout-style sci-fi role-playing game The Outer Worlds.
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According to the Game of Thrones Wiki, obsidian in Westeros and Essos is the same as it is here in our world.
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In other words, holding your rainbow obsidian and keeping it close to (if not up against) your body will amplify its effects.
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Cull Obsidian goes first, stuck in a flying Hulkbuster gauntlet as it drags him along the outer reaches of Wakanda's defensive shield.
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I was very aware that Obsidian was the dark record and I tried to move away from that in a pointed way.
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The sun lounged on obsidian water, masking a secret world where land and sea swap places, and past, present and future collide.
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Obsidian is ruled by the evil tycoon Falco (Rob Fowler), whose beautiful daughter, Raven (Christina Bennington), inevitably falls in love with Strat.
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Video game publisher Private Division is delaying its Nintendo Switch port of Obsidian Entertainment's The Outer Worlds due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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The Outer Worlds, the Obsidian-developed first-person RPG, is releasing on the Nintendo Switch on March 6th, the company announced today.
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There was something so sweet about that vehicular effrontery, as if their obsidian eyes could issue an endgame between irony and rationality.
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Jon thinks of something perfect: dragon glass, or obsidian, which is a resource Daenerys' Dragonstone lands are rich in but not using.
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Obsidian is a studio best-known for deep, intriguing role-playing games like Fallout: New Vegas and, most recently, The Outer Worlds.
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Among the most high-profile titles to become an EGS exclusive well before its release is acclaimed developer Obsidian Entertainment's The Outer Worlds.
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In the past couple of years, Microsoft has bought a not-insignificant number of studios, including Obsidian Entertainment and Psychonauts developer Double Fine.
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As the National Parks Service (NPS) shared in a 2016 blog, the U.S. has its own Dragonstone-esque cache: Obsidian Cliff in Yellowstone.
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Microsoft announced in November that it was preparing to acquire the company, but noted in a statement that Obsidian would retain its autonomy.
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Obsidian Entertainment's most recent game was Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, which is a sequel to the studio's 2015 title, Pillars of Eternity.
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The two models with keyways are called the SmartCode 916 and SmartCode 916 Contemporary, and the keyway-less model is called the Obsidian.
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Shungite is another great neutralizing crystal, or one that filters out incoming negativity, while black onyx and obsidian will also keep you grounded.
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The Obsidian Box is delivered quarterly ($249.95) and comes with five to ten high-end outdoor products with a retail value of $300+.
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But in "Obsidian Tear," Mr. McGregor introduces a physical language that is pared down and clear yet permeated by a fullness and grace.
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Mr. Walker plays Patrick Bateman, a character first introduced in Bret Easton Ellis's controversial 1991 novel, an obsidian-dark satire of '80s excess.
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Such implements are still uncommon to excavate, often made of perishable materials, but obsidian, formed when lava cools, tends to be long-lasting.
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It is unclear when Trump first invested in Obsidian, which bets on corporate and government bonds, along with interest rates and other securities.
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The badlands are the draw here, from their "mechabeasts" and fortress cities to the Obsidian Sea where terrible weapons have blasted the earth.
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Revealingly, slightly less than half of the artifacts found at the younger sites were made from obsidian, for which there was no local source.
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PST This story has been updated to include comments from Angela Ford, founder of Obsidian Collection, which archives and preserves African-American owned newspapers.
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While we know Sam killed his own White Walker with an obsidian blade, that may not be the only thing Dragonglass is good for.
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HBO Max is set to launch in spring 2020, with Adventure Time: Distant Lands' "BMO" and "Obsidian" premiering exclusively on the service next year.
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Even if you're not mourning the loss of a great love, it's still a good idea to add rainbow obsidian to your crystal collection.
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Fonny grew up there, too, with his alcoholic father (Michael Beach), unforgivingly pietistic mother (Aunjanue Ellis), and judgmental sisters (Ebony Obsidian and Dominique Thorne).
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I was encouraged to obtain a black obsidian crystal for protection, which Magic Jewelry happens to sell in a variety of sizes and clarities.
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At the moment, it currently only comes in black and obsidian, but will be available in other colors, including white and gray, in January.
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Both Joyce and Catherine avoid hugging Denise's partner Michelle (Ebony Obsidian) and instead go for what can best be described as super awkward handshakes.
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The new Mavic Pro Platinum will retail for $1,099, and the Phantom 4 Pro Obsidian will sell for $1,499, with both shipping in September.
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The plains came to slate under the Queen and her kind; the forests to ash, the mountains to ice, and the shores to obsidian.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has ordered two former finance executives at Penn West Petroleum Ltd, now known as Obsidian Energy Ltd (OBE.
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As a result, organizations using Obsidian can continuously right-size user access and privileges, detect account takeover and insider threats and respond to incidents.
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For instance, BlackRock's Obsidian fund has averaged annual returns of 3.39% over the past five years, according to a person familiar with the performance.
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The hijab, which is expected to cost $35, is made of a lightweight, stretchy mesh polyester and will come in gray, black and obsidian.
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"While they do share a common heritage, the two creative teams at Obsidian and inXile are very different," explains Matt Booty, head of Xbox games.
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The closest sources of obsidian to Olorgesailie were located more than 15 to 30 miles (2003-50 km) away, suggesting trade or long-distance travel.
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While Markle's case is in Amber Orange, you can choose from many other color options like Obsidian Black, Sapphire Blue, Emerald Green, and Spring Pink.
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The Phantom 4 Pro Obsidian is basically entirely a color change, though it does have a new magnesium, electroplated gimbal that's supposed to prevent fingerprints.
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Why not see who can delve the deepest and collect the most diamonds and obsidian in a randomly-generated cave system tweaked for maximum danger?
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You can also give the monthly or quarterly Obsidian Box as a gift to encourage fun and adventure in the life of a loved one.
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"A Plague Tale: Innocence" (Asobo/Focus Home)"Control" (Remedy/505)"Death Stranding "(Kojima Productions/SIE)"Disco Elysium" (ZA/UM)"The Outer Worlds" (Obsidian/Private Division)
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"Disco Elysium" (ZA/UM)"Final Fantasy XIV" (Square Enix)"Kingdom Hearts III" (Square Enix)"Monster Hunter World: Iceborne" (Capcom)"The Outer Worlds" (Obsidian/Private Division)
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The researchers described obsidian tools that were smaller, more carefully crafted and more specialized than larger stone tools called handaxes used by earlier human species.
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The obsidian, which is extremely sharp when fractured, was traced back to their origin at locations up to 55 miles away through very rugged terrain.
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BlackRock&aposs 23-year-old Obsidian hedge fund bested the average hedge fund, returning more than 13% in 2019 even after losing money in August.
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Microsoft has bought several game-development studios under Spencer's supervision, including Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, InXile, Ninja Theory, Obsidian, Playground Games and Undead Labs.
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For instance, BlackRock's Obsidian fund has averaged annual returns of 3.39 percent over the last five years, according to a person familiar with the performance.
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The carmaker is ditching two colors — "obsidian black" and "metallic silver" — but both will remain available so long as customers are willing to pay more.
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Also based in California, Obsidian Entertainment is known for games like Fallout: New Vegas, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and the Pillars of Eternity series.
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The top of the range 'Obsidian Black,' which has the highest rate of cashback and perks, requires a customer to hold around $350,000 in MCO tokens.
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In "Obsidian", Marceline and Princess Bubblegum will go on a journey to the Glass Kingdom in order to prevent a disaster, while also exploring their pasts.
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The Outer Worlds comes courtesy of Obsidian, the studio founded by members of the original Fallout team and which made the acclaimed expansion Fallout: New Vegas.
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The obsidian I found at the base of a volcano in Tequila, Mexico, and it supposedly helps to shield against negativity, resentment toward others, and anger.
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The figurine was found beneath a platform with a piece of obsidian, which suggests that it may have been placed there as part of some ritual.
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Among the looted objects were a famed Aztec obsidian jar in the shape of a monkey and the jade death mask of an ancient Mayan ruler.
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As Brian Heins, a senior designer at Obsidian, told The Verge in an interview, The Outer Worlds isn't meant to follow up any specific past game.
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One former employee of the studios Blizzard and Obsidian said he has faced a slew of workplace issues common among game developers, including working unpaid overtime.
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Archeologists posit that a thriving craft-based economy populated by lapidaries, potters, garment makers and especially obsidian workers making razor-sharp blades made the city rich.
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My Merc came wearing a handsome "Obsidian Black Metallic" paint job and with a lovely all-black interior, detailed with natural-grain ash and aluminum trim.
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But The Fractured but Whole, being developed by Ubisoft San Francisco instead of Obsidian, seems to be one of those sequels that improves upon the original.
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On YouTube, videos advise on how to proof your buildings against griefers, by building walls lined with obsidian or posting re-spawning witches at your door.
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The Outer Worlds is the latest sci-fi adventure from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division, with the first trailer dropped during the 2018 Game Awards on Thursday.
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The polished sides and front screen complete the picture, making the phone look almost like single continuous piece of high shine obsidian when the screen's turned off.
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Generally speaking, it's a powerful stone for thwarting bad vibes, but there's one type in particular — rainbow obsidian — that's said to be especially useful for personal woes.
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Each crystal, whether it's an amethyst point, an obsidian pyramid, or a smoky quartz pendulum, is stocked for a reason, not just because it was lying around.
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Similarly, obsidian can quiet an overactive mind and even give you clarity around difficult decisions, writes Yulia Van Doren in Crystals: The Modern Guide to Crystal Healing.
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Then he began pulling items from boxes stacked on a metal shelf — a flint knife, obsidian arrowheads — each one wrapped in a plastic bag and carefully labeled.
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While attending a talk at the Game Developers Conference, Dollarhyde received an excited Slack message from Obsidian audio director Justin Bell, demanding she immediately listen to something.
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Look, I did a lot of daydreaming, and apparently so did Obsidian, because their brand new game, Grounded, is for all the Rick Moranis fans out there.
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Announced at Microsoft's X019 event in London, Grounded is a new first-person, co-op survival game from Xbox Game Studios and Obsidian Entertainment coming spring 2020.
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When a tincture of spookiness yields a restlessness, a wandering, when for an evening or two the very flesh of the universe jags from obedience to obsidian.
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The team had discovered the rounded figure lying next to a piece of obsidian, a position that suggests "some form of ritual deposition," according to a statement.
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When he cooks on my stove, he chucks aside the burners and chars directly on the gas, to obsidian and beyond, saying it reminds him of camping.
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Obsidian recovered from an August when it lost 3% in the month, putting its returns, at that point in the year, at 7.5%, Business Insider previously reported.
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Sarah Guo joined Greylock Partners as an investor in 2013 and is on the board of Obsidian and also works closely with Awake, Crew, Rhumbix and Skyhigh.
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Taylor Swope is the QA lead at Obsidian, and he recently used Twitter to walk people through exactly how the studio managed to squash this specific issue.
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As part of Microsoft Studios, Obsidian and inXile will have the support and freedom to fully realize their creative ambitions on both existing franchises and new RPG projects.
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Other producers that benefit include Whitecap Resources Inc, Athabasca Oil Corp, Pengrowth Energy Corp, Baytex Energy Corp and Obsidian Energy Ltd, AltaCorp Capital Research said in a note.
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Other producers that benefit include Whitecap Resources Inc , Athabasca Oil Corp, Pengrowth Energy Corp , Baytex Energy Corp and Obsidian Energy Ltd , AltaCorp Capital Research said in a note.
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Obsidian Entertainment brought the first teaser for The Outer Worlds to The Game Awards, giving fans of the developer just a small glimpse into the newly crafted world.
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That sponge will eventually find itself irradiated by hormones, as puberty chucks an obsidian bowling ball down the alley of the self and it all goes to hell.
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The monthly Original Box (~$30) comes with up to six full-sized items, and the high-end Obsidian Box ($250) comes quarterly with five to ten premium items.
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Obsidian fell 6.17% in 2016 through March 20143, while other comparable funds rose 0.69%, according to a private client report by HSBC's Alternative Investment Group seen by Reuters.
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According to court documents uncovered at Forbes, federal investigators have requested that Apple and Google turn over information about people who downloaded a gun scope app Obsidian 4.
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BOSTON BALLET Artistic director, Mikko Nissinen, opens his company's 2017-2018 season with the North American premiere of Wayne McGregor's "Obsidian Tear," a coproduction with the Royal Ballet.
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He felt that the musical's "ginormous" book, about a pack of eternally youthful teens who live underneath a mythical city called Obsidian, needed some reshaping and paring down.
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After all, Obsidian is the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas, a game that lots of fans would argue delivered the best first-person Fallout adventure of its generation.
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Innovation in Go-To-Market tactics: Ben Johnson, CTO of Obsidian Security recently raised $9.5 million from Greylock (and since the announcement, has been inundated with "Series B" interest).
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Given its capacity for deeply personal healing, rainbow obsidian is one of those stones that works best when there's a skin or touch connection between it and the user.
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For the most part, they're pretty unremarkable looking: Popular varieties like shungite, tourmaline, and obsidian are usually dark in color — a far cry from the millennial pink rose quartz.
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Its adoption of the Obsidian name was an effort to distance itself from Penn West's past, including a September 2014 restatement of more than two years of financial statements.
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"Our settlement resolves this legacy Penn West issue, and we are focused on looking forward as a new company," David French, chief executive of Obsidian Energy said on Wednesday.
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The researchers also discovered bits of arrow or spear tips, two of which were made from obsidian—a black volcanic rock that can be worked to razor-like sharpness.
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From a warrior with an obsidian disk on his chest to a jaguar, he was the god of time, the nocturnal sky, and the embodiment of change through conflict.
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The striking ebony hue feels at once ancient and modern: Here is the enveloping matte darkness of Anish Kapoor's Vantablack paint and the glittering primordial obsidian of lava rock.
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Archaeologist Peter Sheppard, one of the study's authors, had suspected in the early 1990s that the small, retouched obsidian flakes found in the region were used for piercing skin.
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The building is 685 First Avenue, a 42-story, obsidian condo-and-rental combo from the Solow Building Company, which has been active in New York since the 1960s.
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Samwell Tarly later learned, between his maester orderly rounds, that large stores of the substance, which kills White Walkers and which we know as obsidian, are at (surprise) Dragonstone.
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Faux-leather leggings are sleek, they're edgy, they're reflective in a similar obsidian-like way that real leather is — but they're far thinner, and undeniably a different-feeling material.
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"The influence today is definitely waning," said Angela Ford, the founder and executive director of the Obsidian Collection, an archive for black media that wrote the Democracy Fund report.
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"The influence today is definitely waning," said Angela Ford, the founder and executive director of the Obsidian Collection, an archive for black media that wrote the Democracy Fund report.
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Pieces on blonde, acid yellow and gold are nestled within the yellow family, for instance, while under the black subheading, the secrets of kohl, obsidian, ink and melanin are divulged.
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Calgary-based Obsidian Energy said it had agreed to pay the financial penalty without admitting or denying any of the factual allegations in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint.
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In 453, Pepe Toth saw a photograph of himself and his then model girlfriend, Sztella Tziotziosz, on the cover of "Obsidian," the first in the Lux series, published that December.
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"Native" buckets are filled with native dirt and may not contain any stones, whereas the "Enriched" buckets are guaranteed to contain treats like quartz, agate, obsidian, topaz, and/or emerald.
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I've only played a couple of hours, at a recent preview event, but in that time, I got the distinct sense Obsidian is making a modern Fallout game for me.
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Use today's energy to get grounded—take a nap on the grass in your yard, zone out by a river, or meditate with some obsidian or onyx in your hand.
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She identified specific traces of chipping and rounding of their edges along with thin striations and smooth polish that indicated the obsidian pieces were used specifically for piercing and puncturing.
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Excavations done over three years at the Fincha Habera rock shelter revealed troves of artifacts, including stone tools—some made from obsidian—several pottery shards, and a single glass bead.
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But the Pīwakawaka (bird) witnesses begin laughing at this foolish notion and Hine-nui-te-pō wakes up, killing Māui with her obsidian vagina dentata and cursing humans with mortality.
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Obsidian fell 6.17 percent in 2016 through March 11, while other comparable funds rose 20143 percent, according to a private client report by HSBC's Alternative Investment Group seen by Reuters.
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However, in Marshall's work, the figures are central and almost always black, resolutely black, obsidian black, a struck-match black, the black that comes from being enveloped by a planet.
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An obsidian-eyed exile from a city once called "capital of the Syrian revolution," Batool landed in Istanbul in 2014, and found her place in the darkness of the underground.
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In fact, prior crowdfunding success has become a big draw, with studios like Inxile and Obsidian able to consistently fund new projects because they've already proven they can fulfill campaign promises.
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Now, as you always must in a game from Obsidian, it was time to make some choices that would profoundly affect that community, and hurt some of the people in it.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cybersecurity company Obsidian Security raised $20 million in a funding round participated by Greylock Partners, the company told Reuters on Tuesday, a day ahead of a planned announcement.
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Once the studio put a 14-person team together and production was up and running, Atadero says that they wanted to leave a particularly Obsidian imprint on the survival game: storyline.
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For example, Tesla wrote in an email September 12 that Model 3 orders placed before the 14th in metallic silver or obsidian black metallic would be produced on an expedited basis.
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On display are matte, obsidian, midnight, and pitch-black scenes that closely follow the progression of each of the last four decades and respond to centuries of events that shaped America.
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Monoprice Obsidian Speed Plus USB Charger for $28 ($215 off): If you have a USB-C connected laptop, this compact charger can charge it, along with up to four other devices.
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Midway through Obsidian Entertainment's new role-playing shooter The Outer Worlds, I met a man miserably playing a corporate mascot, his head semi-permanently enclosed in a large, ghoulish moon mask.
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One was a team of American, French and Nigerien commandos on a clandestine operation to kill or capture an Islamic State operative, part of a broader mission code-named Obsidian Nomad.
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With Jon's warnings of white terminators heading their way, Dany agrees to allow him to mine obsidian from her spot in Dragonstone; the whitewalkers will only be defeated with Dragonglass, their kryptonite.
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Microsoft is continuing to invest in a broad spectrum of developers for its Xbox gaming ecosystem with the acquisition of Obsidian and InXile, makers of complex RPGs primarily aimed at PC users.
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On Sunday morning, London's Natural History Museum shared a Twitter thread about the origins of obsidian, how to form it into a weapon, and why some ancient peoples used it as such.
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All in all, Obsidian Cliff demonstrates that not only can a desirable resource make its way all across the country but it can, in fact become a desirable resource, even in fiction.
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I remember it looking like someone had squirted obsidian ink in my eyes, and then it dribbled down, and when that washed away, I was in the full-on grip of acid.
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Shungite, obsidian, and black onyx may be a little more intense (in looks and in function) than a clear quartz, for example, but you just need to know how to use them.
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"Our settlement resolves this legacy Penn West issue, and we are focused on looking forward as a new company," David French, chief executive of Obsidian Energy, said on Wednesday in a statement.
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As a literal crowning touch, they added an irregular saw-toothed roof line, jagged like a piece of obsidian, which created the apartment's defining design feature, a sharply creased, origami-like ceiling.
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Obsidian understands this post-nuclear world, what makes it interesting and dangerous, and it makes the somewhat daring choice in an open-world game of giving you a specific role in it.
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After tooling around in Obsidian Entertainment's corporate space RPG for more than a week I landed on a perfectly succinct description: The Outer Worlds is a Fallout game wearing a fake mustache.
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Microsoft's X0 conferences are usually small in focus, but Microsoft went big for its late 2019 event in London, with its first big showing of original games from Rare, Obsidian, and Dontnod.
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Further burrowing turned up not only more pottery but also tools of obsidian and a great cache of human bones, which had lain undisturbed and unusually well preserved over thousands of years.
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Developed by Obsidian Entertainment, the same team behind Fallout: New Vegas, the game is rife with riffs on capitalism, multifaceted companions, and a character arc that includes flaws as well as positive perks.
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"I think that backers are more discerning now, since unfortunately a number of crowdfunded games did not come out, or did not deliver on all of their promises," says Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart.
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Regardless of its color, which can range from opaque black to green to brown, obsidian is commonly believed to protect the user and even encourage the release of negativity from within the user.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged Penn West Petroleum, which this week changed its name to Obsidian Energy, moved hundreds of millions of dollars from operating expense accounts to capital expenditure accounts.
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There was a song on Obsidian that referenced a domestic relationship and the dissolve of said relationship, called "Incompatible," and I wrote it through experiencing that vicariously through a lot of other friends.
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"Obsidian Tear" loses focus after this, in an epilogue in which Mr. Ball staggers wildly to his own fall in dim, red light as the dense string sounds fade away into birdlike delicacy.
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Sometimes specific jewelry is worn, like a piece of obsidian or other black stone; other times, reflective objects like mirrors are hung in home windows to reflect bad energies back out and away.
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Grounded, which is the first new property from Obsidian since the studio was acquired by Microsoft, is a four-player co-op experience that can be played in both first- and third-person.
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That's meant creating striking music videos like "Titans," which featured her and her dancers turning into obsidian shapes, and "Calypso," which tapped GIF artist Kyttenjanae to put a utopian spin on the titular myth.
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But this changed entirely by about 2300,2000 years ago, as evidenced by the presence of tools and other artifacts made from obsidian, chert (a colored stone), and quartzite—materials that came from far away.
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Obsidian fragments and sheets of galvanized steel remind of the low, textured ridges of the red wilderness; hanging above the severe floor works is an iconic Akari light sculpture, representing a large, hot sun.
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Markland and Liberty had come directly from Obsidian Entertainment: the former had worked on a canceled Aliens role-playing game there, while the latter was still acting as senior producer on Fallout: New Vegas.
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She allowed him to mine at Dragonstone for obsidian to make Dragonglass, and also saved him after he decided to try to capture a wight to prove to Cersei that there's an invasion coming.
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St. Clair researches the diverse meaning of colors across cultures and centuries, highlighting the significance of celadon in Chinese art, of obsidian in Native American rituals, and of madder red to the ancient Egyptians.
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She already sits on the boards of several companies, including the security startup Obsidian, which was founded by ex-Cylance and Carbon Black execs last year and quickly raised $9.5 million, led by Greylock.
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Benjamin Moore named Caliente, an intense shade of red, its upcoming color of the year, and its newest line of paint, Century, is composed of 75 saturated colors like Amethyst, Black Currant and Obsidian.
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Word of the Day : acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces _________ The word obsidian has appeared in 12 articles on nytimes.
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Hungry City 10 Photos View Slide Show ' I have never seen branzino look quite like this, like some ancient, jewel-encrusted weapon unearthed from volcanic ash, prickly with glistening shards, crushed obsidian and olivine.
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The studios issued videos talking about their take on the development, which you can watch below: And now, a very special announcement from us here at Obsidian on becoming a part of the Microsoft family!
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Titles like Koji Igarashi's Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity, and Playtonic Games' Yooka-Laylee did much the same, combining experienced developers with a well-known and beloved style of game.
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Obsidian Security, founded by former executives from cybersecurity firms Cylance and Carbon Black Inc, will use the money for product development and to grow sales and marketing teams, Chief Executive Officer Glenn Chisholm told Reuters.
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In this case, it was Obsidian identifying a bug in The Outer Worlds that would randomly kill companions—a critical part of The Outer Worlds—in a space where they shouldn't be able to die.
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Donning a retractable headdress that resembles a set of mutant deer antlers — a feature that signals she's ready to destroy, dismantle, and obliterate — Hela and her telekinetic obsidian knives pump with an addiction for blood.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Penn West Petroleum, which changed its name earlier this week to Obsidian Energy, had moved hundreds of millions of dollars from operating expense accounts to capital expenditure accounts.
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At X019 in London, Obsidian revealed Grounded, a survival game set in a suburban backyard where a group of four friends has to fend for themselves after being shrunk down to the size of an ant.
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Having become a major force in the genre through Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, Fallout: New Vegas, and Pillars of Eternity, Obsidian has been a carrier of the traditional RPG flame for years now.
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Casa Dragones Tasting Room:This newly minted tequila tasting bar (yep, that's right, a bar of just the world's top tequila) is made of custom-carved obsidian tiles and sits in the middle of a concept department store.
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This in particular is made of lightweight, super stretchy polyester and comes in two colors, black and obsidian, which were chose to accommodate athlete requests for neutral colors (though white and gray will be unveiled in January).
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He still believes in the benefits of obsidian today, but he no longer uses the amphorae and instead stores his wine in fiberglass vats, like they did in Sicily until the end of the 1960s and 70s.
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According to their findings, which were recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, artifacts discovered in the Solomon Islands are theorized to be 3,000-year-old tattooing tools made from sharpened volcanic glass, or obsidian.
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The last time Obsidian made a game like this, after all, it was Fallout: New Vegas, an inventive sequel to Bethesda's Fallout 3 that remains one of the deepest, most thematically and narratively satisfying RPGs ever made.
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Which wasn't all that much, given The Stick of Truth was considered a surprisingly competent role-player by many a critic, ultimately admirably crafted by Obsidian Entertainment (Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity) despite some turbulent development.
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Markland was installed as Killswitch's first CEO, and the two hired a mix of industry newcomers and veterans — primarily from Obsidian and the then-recently closed Pandemic Studios, developer of military action games Mercenaries and Full Spectrum Warrior.
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A teaser for the announcement was posted on Obsidian Entertainment's website prior to the game awards, and used images of retro space guns and local grocery store items like bread and skincare to tease out the next adventure.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian oil and gas producer Obsidian Energy, formerly known as Penn West Petroleum Ltd, said on Wednesday it would pay $8.5 million to resolve a lawsuit by U.S. securities regulators accusing it of accounting fraud.
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Calgary-based Obsidian Energy said in a statement it agreed to pay the financial penalty without admitting or denying any of allegations contained in a lawsuit the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed Manhattan federal court in June.
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Four years after the release of Obsidian, [Will Wiesenfeld] is back with a new Baths record called Romaplasm that he says congealed during that period of comfort, which pretty much stretched through the entire recording of the record.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a statement alleged that Penn West Petroleum, which changed its name earlier this week to Obsidian Energy, had moved hundreds of millions of dollars from operating expense accounts to capital expenditure accounts.
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Olivia Marciano curated the Marciano Foundation's final, large-scale solo show, Donna Huanca: Obsidian Ladder, an installation with live performers which Huanca says confronts "patriarchal realities, power dynamics, and hierarchies of contemporary life," according to the Marciano Foundation's website.
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During the visit, Martha brought out an obsidian arrowhead that she had found on the property, which most likely once belonged to a native person of Algonquin lineage who, like Gorky, would have eventually been driven from their homeland.
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The syrupy concoction is a crucial ingredient for making feathered headdresses, hide quivers, obsidian-blade sticks and other forms of ceremonial dance ornaments, or regalia, that are at once works of art and living conduits to the spirit world.
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I had been eagerly awaiting Obsidian&aposs spiritual successor to "Fallout," and I was amazed when I loaded it up in the Microsoft store to see that the freshly minted big-name game was already included on Game Pass.
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Canadian Western Bank: RBC cuts rating to sector perform from outperform Obsidian Energy Ltd: Canaccord Genuity cuts rating to hold from speculative buy Paramount Resources: National Bank of Canada cuts rating to sector perform from outperform COMMODITIES AT 1.1973:00 a.m.
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Obsidian's response came after FrontFour, the producer's second-biggest shareholder with a 5.7 percent stake, said it had tried over the last three months to come to an agreement with Obsidian over the addition of one mutually agreed upon independent nominee.
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QinetiQ, a British defence firm that makes a counter-drone system called Obsidian, has found ways to use signals to disrupt the electronic circuits within a drone, allowing it to disable a drone's camera or turn off its electric motors.
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In practice, obsidian is well-placed in any environment that may cause stress (it'd look right at home next to the cuprite on your desk at work, that's for sure), and it can be helpful to simply hold while meditating.
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CALGARY, Alberta, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Canadian oil and gas producer Obsidian Energy, the company formerly known as Penn West Petroleum Ltd, announced on Wednesday a $8.5 million settlement with U.S. financial regulators over civil accounting fraud charges filed in June.
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Last night Bran saw that the Night's King was a fabled First Man until the Children of the Forest pinned him to their Weirwood tree, stabbed his heart with an obsidian dagger, and turned him into the first White Walker.
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Heightened by touches of 18-karat pink gold and an obsidian alligator strap, the chronograph's stopwatch capability may be the least of its attributes: With one flash of this on your wrist, traffic itself may well come to a standstill.
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But Dragonstone is important for another reason: As Samwell Tarly discovers this episode, it's a volcanic island that holds deposits of the obsidian-like substance dragonglass, one of only two materials that the series has established can kill White Walkers.
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Of course it's a huge question and in a way we are dealing with it in the segment of Ethiopia where a paleontologist who has found prehistoric workshops of obsidian tools, and we ask him, 'do we have another hundred thousand years?
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"I think that backers are more discerning now, since unfortunately a number of crowdfunded games did not come out, or did not deliver on all of their promises," Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Pillars of Eternity developer Obsidian, told The Verge last month.
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Later this week, VICE Games' Rob Zacny will give his comprehensive review of The Outer Worlds, but as a devotee of both developer Obsidian Entertainment and this particular style of RPGs, I couldn't help myself from digging in and sounding off, too.
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Deep in the grueling stretches of touring Obsidian—his last album as Baths, which he calls a "really negative record, on purpose"—he realized the process of singing those songs every night, tales of sickness, morbidity, and romantic dissolution was getting to him.
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In the meantime, I'd already set myself up in a shack made out of reeds and palm leaves, built with help from Rachid, the obsidian-eyed child who had popped out from behind a bramble one day, a huge smile on his face.
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At the Garden, in the Four Seasons on Fifty-seventh Street, a waiter walked to a cupboard near the entrance, removed a napkin the color of obsidian, smoothed it, folded it four times, put it on a plate, and presented it to him.
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"And at his hour of greatest need, they make some sort of compromise, and Smart Hulk rips out of the armor and beats the crap out of Cull Obsidian and destroys him," said McFeely of the alternate scene that could have taken place.
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The obsidian was used in a wide range of tools including scrapers, implements with chisel and gouging edges and also in small points that could be placed at the end of a wood or bone shaft for use as a projectile weapon.
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The most expensive Saudi gift Mr. Obama received then was a package that included 10 golf clubs, a leather golf bag and a gold-plated sterling silver sculpture of two horses that was covered in diamonds, tsavorites, yellow sapphires, rubies and obsidian.
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And while the blood-red lipstick looks amazing contrasted against her pale skin and obsidian hair — and her use of the shade as an eyeshadow and tattoo-booster has us taking style notes — the question on everyone's lips is about the hair, not the makeup.
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The event also featured several electronic-leaning local musicians who were part of a tight-knit Bay Area underground music community, including sound artist Russell CL Butler, Joey Casio who performed as Obsidian Blade, AJ Archuleta performing as Piano Rain, and Jon Hrabko as RADAR.
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But, if you want a $30 gift basket of cool outdoor gear once a month (or quarterly if you go for the more dramatic Obsidian Box) to inspire you to head outdoors on your own or with friends, I think you'll be happy with Cairn.
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" So in lieu of Mr. Salonen's "Lachen Verlernt" and "Nyx" as strictly instrumental, they will be heard on Friday as the score to Mr. McGregor's 2016 ballet "Obsidian Tear"; the music and dance, Mr. Salonen said, "inform each other, and it enriches the experience.
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Once the day's programming had ceased, rivulets of denim and leather flowed to Obsidian—where the after shows and craft brews reigned—and Cryptatropa, a gothier property that kept the absinthe flowing until 2AM, after which clandestine hotel parties quietly raged until the staff had had enough.
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Set to Esa-Pekka Salonen's electrifying solo violin piece, "Lachen Verlernt"(given a virtuosic performance from Vasko Vassilev), and his symphonic work "Nyx," the all-male "Obsidian Tear" is a breakthrough piece for Mr. McGregor, who has been the Royal Ballet's choreographer in residence since 2006.
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It turns out that obsidian has helped establish and protect more than one early civilization (lookin' at you, Children of the Forest!) In Game of Thrones, one of the largest caches of Dragonglass is at Dragonstone, the former home of Stannis Baratheon, and current headquarters of Team Khaleesi.
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The researchers found abundant evidence of long-distance transfer of obsidian to the Olorgesailie Basin location from sites up to 55 miles (88 km) away over rugged terrain, leading them to believe it was acquired from another group through trade although it was unknown what was provided in exchange.
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Will Wiesenfeld has been busy with many other projects aside from his main gig in Baths in the years since he released 2013's Obsidian, a taxing and utterly beautiful electronic-classical-emo-whatever album about death and heartbreak, as well as its accompanying outtakes EP Ocean Death.
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A team of researchers from Australia and New Zealand examined 15 obsidian artifacts from the Nanggu site in the Solomon Islands — a large Lapita settlement site — and determined that the shiny black glass pieces were specially designed and used to pierce skin as far back as 3,000 years ago.
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The same properties that make rainbow obsidian a catalyst for emotional release can also serve as a gentle reminder to just let things go, even if your initial reaction is to worry or overthink (and, honestly, whose gut doesn't tell them to worry over the little things every so often?).
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Looking again at Marshall's paintings, we might interrogate not just their "jet black, ebony black, charcoal black, obsidian black, velvety black, inky black," as Molesworth describes, but also the ways in which they shine, a key aspect that Krista Thompson has identified in black popular photography and recent portrait painting.
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It was once a critical location for the mineral trade — during the Neolithic period, the ancient Minoans exported Milos's obsidian to the neighboring Aegean island of Crete, whose residents used the volcanic glass to make weapons — but the island is best known because of an event from more recent history.
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Pictured above (from left to right): Matt Wolff, Glenn Chisholm, Ben Johnson Obsidian Security combats cyberthreats across hybrid-cloud environments like G-Suite, Office 365, Salesforce, Dropbox and Slack by using a first identity graph that monitors activity and automatically extracts accounts, privileges and configurations from applications and cloud environments.
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The researchers described ochre pigment that produced a bright-red color, which could have been used for body painting or other symbolic expression, and tools fashioned from obsidian, a volcanic rock that yields extremely sharp blades, that contrasted with clunkier ones used by earlier species in the human evolutionary lineage.
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Among other brands, Cartier this year introduced its Rotonde de Cartier Mysterious Hour, in which for the first time a technique of hard stone marquetry was applied to set four different colored stones — lapis lazuli, agate, cacholong (a variety of opal) and obsidian — into a geometric pattern on the dial.
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Throughout, "Thanksgiving" doesn't shy away from showing Catherine's hurt and confusion toward her daughter: With expert directing from Melina Matsoukas and a powerful performance from Bassett, we watch how Catherine's visibly uncomfortable as her daughter interact with her girlfriend Michelle (Ebony Obsidian), tilting her head and subtly glaring when Denise shows any sort of affection.
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Austin, Natalie, Rob, and Patrick talk through the highlights of the show (the Sonicfox, Dead Cells, and Celeste wins; a new Obsidian RPG; Persona 5's Joker joining Smash Ultimate) and the occasional missteps (skipping through some key awards, the failure of the "big 3" to announce anything collaborative despite being on stage together).
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday night that Tesla would "simplify manufacturing" by removing Obsidian Black Metallic and Silver Metallic from the menu of colors as of Wednesday, possibly so it can catch up on missed production deadlines and fulfill orders already placed by consumers who want to drive its new electric sedan, the Model 21.
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These range from Alice Könitz's obsidian lenses and Channing Hansen's knit works that depict magnetic fields, to live performances by spaced-out experimental rocker Sun Araw, keyboardist Money Mark, and others, paired with viewing sessions through the observatory's famous 60-inch and 100-inch telescopes — the latter of which was the world's largest from 1917 to 1949.
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As I swim, I imagine my tired arms falling off — one, then the other — and sinking to the bottom, slipping in the currents and tumbling across the sea's volcanic floor, back to Milos; they climb up onto the shore and past deserted mines, across sharp fields of obsidian, and finally find their way into the narrow streets of Pollonia.
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On every stairway with the kite-shaped stepI stop on that step one secondto commemorate one particular step in the shape of a kite I'll never again be able to step on I'll never again be able to set foot onone particular step in the shapeof a kitebut there's reason to think it still exists albeit no longer for me to step onLow light, obsidian, Florida water,cedarwood cone— I will never againset foot on the onestep in the flesh but when I step on another like it, it's as if I'm stepping on Low light, obsidian, seashell linedin mother-of-pearl, to set foot on the oneis to step on the other now, long ago— blown sheets in the wind,a railing I can feel the absence supper.
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In "Bat Out of Hell: The Musical," now at City Center , after runs in the U.K. and Toronto, the question functions as a riddle, asked repeatedly by the show's hero, Strat, played by Andrew Polec, on his search for love in the post-apocalyptic city of Obsidian, where he lives with his street gang, the Lost, sometime after the chemical wars.
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He looks like every "alt" musician stereotype rolled into one heavily tattooed package– shoulder-length hair the color and sheen of dirtied obsidian, black leather and chains strapped across a sinewy, six-foot-something frame – and smiles broadly while propping a shit-kicker boot atop the coffee table between us, a light cloud of cigarette ash briefly rising from a nearby bowl.
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Why it matters: Environmental triggers: The scientists believe dramatic changes in the environment like periods of intense rain or drought, earthquakes, and altered animal communities pushed early humans to travel greater distances for food, find new super-sharp obsidian rocks to use for tools and pigments to use for communication, and locate other communities of early humans with whom to trade.
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